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Well, Alejandro, to be honest that's a load of cobblers.
The "new trend" is not to find something you'd have done and do it with a list. The "new trend" is to take something that, at its semantic core, is a list (say: a list of links in a sidebar) and mark it up as such. You then use CSS to alter the display to fit how you will. The Wordpress sidebar is, in fact, a succession of lists. Encased in a div.
Tables are not evil. Tables can still be used: for tabular data. They were never meant for layout; finally, people are cottoning onto this.
But there are some cracking examples out there of people who've got the wrong end of the stick and marked up a massive table of figures as a whole series of definition lists (dl, along with relevant dt and dd). This is clearly bonkers - it's precisely what tables are for!
So basically, saying "hey, the new thing is to use LISTS instead of TABLES" is entirely not true and very misleading. The new thing is to use lists for lists, tables for tables. Call things by their name.
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